Apple pisses me off as a corporation. I find the iPhone ecosystem restrictive and annoying.
But calling it a "moped" is ridiculous.
And we in the Android camp should get off our high horses. Android is a fucking mess. Bastardized *nix userspace, Google creepware everywhere, incredibly inefficient bytecode VM (relative to native code), and now we can't even trust our devices to run apps reliably, thanks to the non-optional Doze being forced on us all. Hint: app whitelist does not do what you might think it does.
I myself cannot wait for a proper Unix phone (like our sacred old n900) to make a new appearance and.. please oh please.. popular splash.
I mean, Windows (in the server room) has slowly gotten better over the past 20 years.
But even today, 20 years after I started my career on Solaris, Linux, HPUX (ugh), and Windows NT, it's a nuisance. The OS will still disobey a direct order due to licensing configuration issues. It is still difficult to manage over a low-latency link. It's still insecure. It still doesn't play nicely with other OSes.
Clearly these guys are paid to write what they're writing, so whatever. But it is interesting that the same complaints we - who actually do this for a living - had 20 years ago are mostly valid today.
The sad thing is the people (at least partly) responsible for this - the lawyers and VPs at the content cartels insistent on geo-restricting content - have already made off like bandits.
Their studios will fail and go bankrupt after they've been long gone, retired, living off the riches accrued by market segmentation.
I've owned four Samsung Android phones over the past 6 years, and the last one I purchased was the Note 3.
In pursuit of planned obsolescence,... pure profit motivated greed, with zero regard to environmental load, they started soldering batteries into all of their phones and sealing the cases.
That's why all the hate.
To watch this disaster (for them) unfold makes me giddy (except of course for anyone hurt by the devices).
Absolutely. Frankly, it fills me with glee (except for those who were hurt).
I'd be in favor of a law in Canada banning the import/sale of devices with sealed batteries. There is simply no excuse. None. It's an environmental disaster and there is simply. no. excuse.
If this leads to the abandonment of a2dp, I am all for it.
It's actually quite embarrassing that a2dp is still a standard in widespread use. The very fact you can't bidirectionally stream audio at a high bitrate is so 90s.
If this move brings on 6ch, 320kbit bidirectional audio, I'm all for it (even as an Android user).
The best battery optimization would be dictating that manufacturers shall provide adequate batteries on their devices if they want access to the Google infrastructure. I, personally, am sick and tired of hearing people whine about battery life on their 3-micron thick devices with 2000mAh batteries.
Have they fixed the rather major defect they introduced by forcing an unconfigurable doze on us all?
Any application which requires the device to remain active (ie. safety applications like marine anchor and AIS alarms) are not functional on Android 6.0+. Even if you add applications to the exception list, they'll still be suspended, and woken only every 15 minutes while dozing.
A simple "do not EVER interfere with this process under any circumstances" option would resolve it, and to be honest it's quite shocking it was ommitted.
In Canada, under sections 7 and 11(c) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadians have the right to remain silent during both interrogation and trial.
Your'e right.. I am (today, in most places). But the point still stands.
It's mostly people lacking a scientific education screaming "we're running out of water" and misunderstanding the actual nature of the problem - some areas have limited access to naturally fresh water, and will need extensive recycling and desalination programs.
But when you put it that way, it's so much less dramatic.
I'm not a heavy Facebook user, but I have mostly dissociated from former friends who share your attitude. It kinda creeps me out, to be honest.
I live on a boat and move around frequently, so Facebook is quite convenient for keeping track of events and the goings on of my friends. When I'm in a particular town, a simple "I'm in town; drinks?" is enough to reunite perhaps a dozen friends for a nice evening.
Anyway, we all make our choices, but it is interesting to hear it from your side.
Give they were down for less than a day, it's entirely possible they *do* have a backup DC, but chose not to transfer. Transferring a thousand services to backup carries an immense risk, and they may have decided that it's safer to simply repair the power systems and bring the original DC back online.
.. that state actors can seize property for their own gain.
Really think about it for a second.
Quite frankly anything seized and not returned should be destroyed (in the case of currency) or donated to a registered charity with a small fee assessed to the seizing department (which should also be destroyed).
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I manage Windows hosts every day. It's all well and good to drop powershell or ssh refs, but you and I both know that's disingenuous.
Windows software, by and large, is still largely GUI based. Every single Windows admin I know spends more time in mstsc than anything else.
The only even remotely challenging item there is thickness.
If 1mm of thickness is worth owning a device more or less guaranteed to fail after 3-4 years, you've got some issues my friend.
Apple pisses me off as a corporation. I find the iPhone ecosystem restrictive and annoying.
But calling it a "moped" is ridiculous.
And we in the Android camp should get off our high horses. Android is a fucking mess. Bastardized *nix userspace, Google creepware everywhere, incredibly inefficient bytecode VM (relative to native code), and now we can't even trust our devices to run apps reliably, thanks to the non-optional Doze being forced on us all. Hint: app whitelist does not do what you might think it does.
I myself cannot wait for a proper Unix phone (like our sacred old n900) to make a new appearance and .. please oh please .. popular splash.
... high-latency. sigh.
I mean, Windows (in the server room) has slowly gotten better over the past 20 years.
But even today, 20 years after I started my career on Solaris, Linux, HPUX (ugh), and Windows NT, it's a nuisance. The OS will still disobey a direct order due to licensing configuration issues. It is still difficult to manage over a low-latency link. It's still insecure. It still doesn't play nicely with other OSes.
Clearly these guys are paid to write what they're writing, so whatever. But it is interesting that the same complaints we - who actually do this for a living - had 20 years ago are mostly valid today.
The sad thing is the people (at least partly) responsible for this - the lawyers and VPs at the content cartels insistent on geo-restricting content - have already made off like bandits.
Their studios will fail and go bankrupt after they've been long gone, retired, living off the riches accrued by market segmentation.
Why the hate?
I've owned four Samsung Android phones over the past 6 years, and the last one I purchased was the Note 3.
In pursuit of planned obsolescence, ... pure profit motivated greed, with zero regard to environmental load, they started soldering batteries into all of their phones and sealing the cases.
That's why all the hate.
To watch this disaster (for them) unfold makes me giddy (except of course for anyone hurt by the devices).
I'm always missing out on all the fun.
Is there a wine build that includes a similar forced update service so I can play too? :)
Absolutely. Frankly, it fills me with glee (except for those who were hurt).
I'd be in favor of a law in Canada banning the import/sale of devices with sealed batteries. There is simply no excuse. None. It's an environmental disaster and there is simply. no. excuse.
* Exceptions for certain medical devices
Technically speaking, wouldn't this be destruction of private property, a criminal offense?
I for one hope this is the even that causes Samsung to discontinue their idiotic policy of sealing in phone batteries.
They could have mailed out replacements with a return envelope so much more easily than depriving people of their devices for a week.
If this leads to the abandonment of a2dp, I am all for it.
It's actually quite embarrassing that a2dp is still a standard in widespread use. The very fact you can't bidirectionally stream audio at a high bitrate is so 90s.
If this move brings on 6ch, 320kbit bidirectional audio, I'm all for it (even as an Android user).
I hope it costs them a fortune. Most of this could have been mitigated with a user-replaceable battery.
Fuck 'em.
Clever, but in fact you cannot disable doze without root. And exceptions do not do what you apparently think they do.
The best battery optimization would be dictating that manufacturers shall provide adequate batteries on their devices if they want access to the Google infrastructure. I, personally, am sick and tired of hearing people whine about battery life on their 3-micron thick devices with 2000mAh batteries.
Have they fixed the rather major defect they introduced by forcing an unconfigurable doze on us all?
Any application which requires the device to remain active (ie. safety applications like marine anchor and AIS alarms) are not functional on Android 6.0+. Even if you add applications to the exception list, they'll still be suspended, and woken only every 15 minutes while dozing.
A simple "do not EVER interfere with this process under any circumstances" option would resolve it, and to be honest it's quite shocking it was ommitted.
I mean, it's quite simple. You have the right, in Canada, to be silent. End of discussion.
The US has a similar law but the Supreme Court of Canada takes the Charter very seriously (should it get that far).
In Canada, under sections 7 and 11(c) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadians have the right to remain silent during both interrogation and trial.
Open and shut case here.
Your'e right .. I am (today, in most places). But the point still stands.
It's mostly people lacking a scientific education screaming "we're running out of water" and misunderstanding the actual nature of the problem - some areas have limited access to naturally fresh water, and will need extensive recycling and desalination programs.
But when you put it that way, it's so much less dramatic.
Seventy-one percent of the Earth is covered by water. We simply lack the technology to change that statistic.
Water cannot be "scarce" on Earth.
It is expensive to desalinate water. However, war is many orders of magnitude more expensive.
Think of it this way: $0.25USD per 1,000L of desalinated water vs $2.50USD per 1,000L of ground or lake water taken by force.
There may be minor skirmishes over specific rivers, but there will never be war because it is not economically advantageous.
You needn't worry. It will always be cheaper to make water than go to war for it.
Interesting to hear from the other side.
I'm not a heavy Facebook user, but I have mostly dissociated from former friends who share your attitude. It kinda creeps me out, to be honest.
I live on a boat and move around frequently, so Facebook is quite convenient for keeping track of events and the goings on of my friends. When I'm in a particular town, a simple "I'm in town; drinks?" is enough to reunite perhaps a dozen friends for a nice evening.
Anyway, we all make our choices, but it is interesting to hear it from your side.
Give they were down for less than a day, it's entirely possible they *do* have a backup DC, but chose not to transfer. Transferring a thousand services to backup carries an immense risk, and they may have decided that it's safer to simply repair the power systems and bring the original DC back online.
.. that state actors can seize property for their own gain.
Really think about it for a second.
Quite frankly anything seized and not returned should be destroyed (in the case of currency) or donated to a registered charity with a small fee assessed to the seizing department (which should also be destroyed).
Sorry Samsung. No removable battery? No sale.